I Wanted to Be Held Without Explaining Anything

Dear Delyara, Held in that quiet way where someone already understands enough from your face and your silence that they don’t make you spend your last emotional energy organizing your pain into clear points before they offer comfort. I think that’s what I’m missing most often. Not support in theory. Support that arrives before I become articulate enough to deserve it. No one did anything wrong tonight. Still, that ache was there. And it felt old.